From: "Robert Comer" 

> Welcome to the modern world.

You ought to know me better than that by now, I'm always looking for
something better. 

- Bob Comer


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:419121c9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news:41911e1b{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Yes, but you have to parse entire threads to do that, and some threads
>> can get pretty big. And who's to know that the message it finds as first
>> in a current thread doesn't have a bad date/time, moving the whole thread
>> out of place.
>
> I don't think you need to parse entire threads, just look at the message
> that this message is a reply to. There are many consistent orders for your
> view, what we're concerned about is eliminating the inconsistent. The
> actual times don't matter.
>
>> Not if the posting time is the original servers receiving time.  but
>> anyway, this is less of an annoyance for me, but still it's the same
>> problem where the client is being trusted for the original send time and
>> it shouldn't be.
>
> All the times from every server a message passes through are available
> with an email. So it's doing exactly what you want!
>
>> Ick.  It does fix this problem but makes using the newsgroups themselves
>> ever so much harder. (lack of speed being the most annoying
"feature" of
>> web based newsgroups)
>
> Welcome to the modern world.
>
> Paul
>

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